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A review of the Scott ancestry shows that the family came from Scotland to America in an early day. Alexander Scott, who was the son of a Revolutionary soldier, was a native of Penn- sylvania, and served in the war of 1812, after which he engaged in farming and milling near Pittsburg. His son, John W. Scott, M. D., was born near Pittsburg, and, after graduating in medicine, practiced in Indiana until the spring of 1858, when he went to Kansas. He built the first house erected in Olathe. The strain of pro- fessional work proved too much for him and he was obliged to relinquish his practice. He then settled on a farm in Allen county. For years he was a member of the legislature (both territorial and state) of Kansas, and he served as speaker of the house and as president of the senate. In 1872 he was appointed land commissioner of the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Railroad, with headquarters in Lawrence, and gave his attention to disposing of the Kansas lands owned by the railway company. Settling in Iola, Kans., in 1876, he embarked in the drug business. Later he accepted an appointment as United States agent for the Ponca, Pawnee and Otoe Indians, with headquarters at the Ponca agency. On a change of administration he resigned his position and resumed the drug business in Iola. Under President Harrison, in 1889, he was ap- pointed a member of the board of government inspectors of stock in Kansas City, and from that place came to Oklahoma in 1893, settling in Lincoln county on a claim. He was living there in 1808, when he was elected to the terri- torial legislature, but he died during the opening days of the fifth general assembly. At the time of his death he was seventy-six years of age.
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During the Civil war he served as surgeon of a Kansas regiment. Fraternally, he was a Mason.
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Dr. Scott's wife was Maria Protsman, who was born in Vevay, Ind., her father, William, having removed from Kentucky to Vevay in an early day. His mother was the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier, who fell at Bunker Hill. Mrs. Scott is now living in Stillwater. Of her eight children, the following survive: W. A., who was formerly a member of the Oklahoma legislature, and is now postmaster and a mer- chant at Clifton, Okla .; W. W., who is assistant purchasing agent for the Choctaw railroad at Memphis; Belle C., of Stillwater; A. C .; Charles F., congressman-at-large for the state of Kan- sas; and Mrs. E. C. Franklin, of Lawrence, Kans., whose husband is a professor in the Uni- versity of Kansas.
Near Franklin, Johnson county, Ind., A. C. Scott was born, September 25, 1857. In the spring of 1858 his parents removed to Kansas, and he was reared principally in Iola. In 1873 he entered the University of Kansas, from which he graduated in 1877, with the degree of A. B., and as valedictorian. After graduating he taught for three years. Meantime, during the summer of 1878, he traveled in Europe, visiting points of historic interest in the British Isles and on the continent. In 1880 he received the degree of A. M. from his alma mater. In 1882 he was elected clerk of the district court of Allen county, and while filling that office he also stud- ied law and was admitted to the bar. Resigning the office in 1884, he entered the law school of Columbian University, at Washington, D. C., from which he received the degrees of LL. B. and LL. M. in 1885. Returning to Iola, he car- ried on a law practice for four years, until the opening of Oklahoma, when he became a citizen of the new territory. In 1892 he was appointed a member of the board of town site commissioners of Oklahoma City and served as its secretary. This position consumed much of his time during 1892, and until he went to Chicago to take charge of the placing of exhibits at the fair. In 1892 his name was urged as a candidate for governor by his own county and many other counties of the territory. He has always been a stanch believer in Republican principles, and has taken an active part in national and territo- rial campaigns.
During his residence in Iola he was made a Mason, and is now a member of Oklahoma City Lodge No. 3. A. F. & A. M. . He is also con- nected with the Knights of Pythias and the An- cient Order of United Workmen, besides which he is a charter member of the Commercial Club of Stillwater and the Territorial Bar Association. The Beta Theta Phi and the Phi Beta Kappa
number him among their members. In religion he is of the Presbyterian faith. He was mar- ried in 1894 to Miss Lola Smeltzer, who was born near Frederick, Md., but in childhood ac- companied her father, D. B. Smeltzer, to Iola, Kans., where she grew to womanhood. She re- ceived her education in the grammar and high schools, afterward studying music for two years at the New England Conservatory, Boston. Mrs. Scott is state secretary for Oklahoma and Indian Territory of the Federation of Women's Clubs ..
C. F. JOHNSON has no reason to complain of the extent of success which has at- tended his efforts in Oklahoma, for he has won the right to be numbered among the prosperous and enterprising farmers of his lo- cality. Upon coming to Kingfisher county in 1893 he paid $1,540 for his first claim, and has since made enough to buy another quarter sec- tion, for which he paid $2,400.
Mr. Johnson was born in Grant county, W. V'a., in 1857, and is a son of Lampkin Johnson, who was born, reared and spent all of his life in West Virgina. He was a farmer and carpenter, and was successful in both occupations. The paternal grandfather, Robert Johnson, was a na- tive of Virginia, and died when C. F. Johnson was a young man. His mother, formerly Ma- rion Petch, had thirteen children, nine of whom attained maturity. The two eldest sons were in the Civil war, and both died from injuries con- tracted while in the service; John Wesley died in 1868, and Isaac Fisher in 1872. Six of the children are now living: Mrs. Hannah Jane Petch, of West Virginia; Annie E .; Martha E .. the wife of Frank Simons; Margaret, the widow of George W. Whetzel; Robert A .; and C. F.
On his father's farm, in his native state. C. F. Johnson was reared to an agricultural life and educated in the public schools. When he was quite young his father died, and as he was the only son at home the greater portion of the re- sponsibility fell upon his shoulders. In 1884 he was married to Margaret E. Phares, of West Virginia, and went to Kansas. Settling on his uncle's farm, for three years he remained there. and then rented farm land for seven years. In 1891 was purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres for the sum of $2,600, which was sold after the expiration of a year for $3,100, thus proving beyond a question his enterprise and business ability. After completing the gath- ering of the year's crops and selling the stock on the farm, he came to Oklahoma, February 22, 1893, and bought the northwest quarter of section 31, Cimarron township, Kingfisher county, with practically no improvements. At
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once he began to prepare the soil for the seed, and put one hundred and twenty-five acres under the plow, the remainder being used for pastur- age. He planted an orchard of four hundred trees, 'and erected a good house and outbuild- ings. Later he bought the adjoining quarter section, and is now using about three hundred and twenty acres for general farming. The principal crops are wheat and corn, and usually one hundred and fifty or two hundred acres are planted in wheat. Mr. Johnson also raises cat- tle, horses and hogs, and makes a specialty of Shorthorn cattle.
In 1892 Mr. Johnson married Annie M. Par- vin, who was born near Henry, Ill. To this couple have been born two children, Charles Wilbert and Edna May. By his former mar- riage Mr. Johnson had two children, Clarence and Walter. In politics he is a Democrat, but is locally independent. He has held office on the school board of district No. 61.
L YNDES BALLARD STONE. Oklahoma county has no citizen more progressive or patriotic than Mr. Stone, who, by his ser- vice as county commissioner, won the wide and favorable notice of the general public. He has taken an active part in every movement calcut- lated to benefit his community, and has used his time, means and influence in promoting public improvements.
Mr. Stone, like his father, Jesse Stone. was born in Chester county, N. H. He accompanied the family to Boston, Mass., in 1850. There they resided for about five years, when they came to the west, arriving in Topeka, Kans., in March, 1855. Jesse Stone conducted a large farm sit- ttated some two and a half miles from that city, and for several years he was successfully en- gaged in merchandising in Topeka. There he became a citizen of prominence, and in 1856 served as a member of the council. He was one of the loval souls whose influence in making Kansas a free state cannot be overestimated. and he never faltered in his allegiance to the Union. Indeed, he sprang from the stanch old New England stock, which came from England, and always stood firmly on the rock of true liberty and patriotic devotion to right and justice. In the early days of Cowley county, Kans., he served as a local preacher in the Baptist denom- ination for two years, and for a number of years he was an official member of the first Baptist church of Topeka, which he materially aided in building. He died at his old home in Topeka. where he was well loved and honored. February 18, 1803, aged eighty-seven years. His wife. whose maiden name was Cynthia Bowker, and who also came from an old New England fam-
ily, died in Topeka. Of their six children Mrs. Ann Judson is deceased; William resides in Ve- nango county, Pa .; Cynthia is the wife of Henry L. Barker; Mary is the wife of Winfield S. Smith, of Guthrie; and Jesse is engaged in mining and prospecting in Colorado, and owns a livery stable at Silverton.
As he has dwelt in this section of the Union since boyhood, L. B. Stone is thoroughly ac- quainted with its pioneer history. He received a good education, attending Lincoln College sub- sequent to finishing his public school course in Topeka. In 1862 he enlisted in Company I, Second Kansas Cavalry, under Colonel Cloud, and was assigned to the Seventh Army Corps. His company was placed mainly along the bor- der, and, as it was almost constantly engaged in guerrilla warfare and skirmishes, the post given was not an especially desirable one. Altogether the company took part in fully twenty-five more or less serious engagements, and, though nar- rowly escaping death on many an occasion, Mr. Stone served to the close of the war without re- ceiving a wound. In 1867, when the Kiowa Indians were on the war path, he enlisted in the Eighteenth Kansas Volunteers and went. upon an expedition which was sent against the rebel- lious red men.
For twenty years Mr. Stone owned and man- aged a farm in Cowley county, Kans. When Oklahoma was proclaimed open to white set- tlers he came here, and on June 18th bought out the claimant to his present homestead, which is situated on section II, Crutcho township. Since that time he has bought another quarter-section. this tract being in Hartzell township. He has placed one hundred acres under cultivation and has planted a fine five-acre orchard. At the time that he built his house, in 1889, it was the best one in the township, and he was the first one to have his quarter-section of land fenced. He has made a specialty of raising Jersey cattle and high-grade horses and hogs, and in all his enter- prises has met with success.
When living in Kansas Mr. Stone was hon- ored with the office of county treasurer of Cow- ley county, and, besides, he was clerk of Richland township for a term, and for fifteen years acted on the local school board. Since settling in Oklahoma he has been county commissioner of this county, having been elected in 1897 on the fusion ticket, and during his term several bridges and other important public improvements were instituted. He was elected to act on the first school board of this township, and was president of that body and connected with it for six years. Politically he is independent, but zealous on be- half of his country. Formerly he was com- mander of Floral Post. G. A. R., of Cowley county, Kans., for some time, and since coming
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to Oklahoma he has been identified with the . to Illinois. In 1869 he went to Iowa, and his post at Dickson. He belongs to the Anti-Horse Thief Association.
January 16, 1870, Mr. Stone and Mary E. Kelley were married in Lyon county, Kans. They are the parents of nine children, namely: Susan E., wife of K. H. Thompson, of Kay county, Okla .; David L .; Edgar, who is assisting in managing the parental property here; Mabel, wife of Albert Elliott, of this county; Jessie, George, Willis, Louisa and Henrietta. The family attend the Baptist Church and move in the best local society.
H ARRY A. McCANDLESS, cashier of the Exchange Bank, of Perry, was an influen- tial factor in the organization of this well known banking institution, which opened its doors for business February 20, 1896, and for nearly five years has steadily grown in impor- tance in this community. From its start Mr. McCandless has served in the capacity of cash- ier, and to his excellent management of the finances of the bank, and the uniform courtesy which he extends to all of his patrons, much of its prosperity, doubtless, should be attributed.
As his name plainly indicates, our subject is of Scotch extraction. His grandfather, Archibald McCandless, was born in the land of heather, and came to Pennsylvania several decades ago. He carried on a farm in the Keystone state until his death, and gave his children good advan- tages. His son, A. B., father of Harry A., was born on the old homestead near Pittsburg, Pa. He decided to become a physician, and. after being graduated in Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, he established himself in prac- tice in Norwich, Ohio. Later he removed to Ma- comb, Ill., thence went to Monmouth. Ill., and afterward practiced his profession in Columbus City, Iowa. For the past twelve years he has been the leading physician of Holton, Kans., and, altogether, has been actively employed in his noble work for half a century. Though sev- enty-three years of age, he is in the possession of all of his faculties, and is keen and strong in mind and body. After he had been practicing for some years he went to a medical college in Chi- cago, where he pursued a special course, in order to further qualify him for his duties. For a wife he chose Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Lee. He was a native of the Emerald Isle, and for many years was a farmer in Ohio. Mrs. Mc- Candless, whose birthplace was in Guernsey county, Ohio, departed this life in Iowa in 1876.
The third in order of birth in a family of eight brothers and sisters, Harry A. McCandless was born in Norwich, Ohio, December 8, 1860, and was in his seventh year when he was taken
higher studies were pursued in Washington Academy and Monmouth College. Having learned the drug business at Columbus City, Iowa, he went to Cedar Rapids, same state, and for the eight years which followed was engaged in the same occupation. In 1896 he came to Perry, and, as previously stated, became asso- ciated with the Exchange Bank and the general welfare of the city. He belongs to the Terri- torial Bankers' Association, and in 1898 and 1899 was identified with its executive board. He also is a leading member of the Perry Commercial Club, and is a stanch adherent to the Repub- lican party.
In Brooklyn, Iowa, the marriage of Mr. Mc- Candless and Miss Florence Dorrance was sol- emnized in 1899. She was born in Iowa, and is the daughter of O. F. Dorrance, who is the president of the Powesheik County Bank, and during the Civil war was a soldier in an Iowa regiment.' Our subject and wife have one son, Robert. They are members of the' Presbyterian Church, and are liberal in their support of re- ligious and benevolent enterprises. They oc- cupy a very attractive home, which was built by him some time ago.
A. C. HINDE. The pioneer hardware and farm implement merchant of Perry is A. C. Hinde, who enjoys the bulk of the local trade, and. by exceptional business talents and square dealing, has won the confidence of the public. From every point of view he has contributed more towards the upbuilding of this thriving place than have the great majority of our prominent citizens, and, as a member of the Commercial Club and of the city council from the third ward, he favored a broad and progres- sive municipal policy.
A son of Capt. George Hinde, and grandson of Anthony Hinde, both of whom were natives of Whitehaven, England, A. C. Hinde was born in Leon Center, N. Y., December 9, 1850. IIis father's life was replete with interest and expe- riences such as rarely fall to the lot of men. When he was in his tenth year he took a posi- tion on a sailing vessel as a cabin-boy, and then followed thirty-five years "before the mast." Much of this time he was engaged in the British marine trade with the East Indies, and, grad- ually working his way upward to wealth and influence, he finally purchased two vessels, sery- ing as captain of one of them. He also made a number of trips to Africa and to South Ameri- can ports, and on one occasion, when attempting to round Cape Horn, he was shipwrecked, and. though he succeeded in making his way to :'o land, it was only to fall into the hands of Sent
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Patagonian Indians-then notorious cannibals. Providentially, he managed to escape, but both of his valuable ships and cargoes were lost in the angry sea. In 1857 he settled in New York state, and subsequently took up his abode in Coffey county, Kans. His wife departed this life when in her eighty-seventh year, and he passed to his reward at eighty-three. She bore the maiden name of Amanda Bower, and was a na- tive of Cleveland, Ohio, in which city her father, David Bower, settled at a very early day. He was a merchant there, and his son, David, was associated with him in business. Captain Hinde was an Odd Fellow, and both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
A. C. Hinde was one of four children, two of whom were sons. When in his eighth year he came to the West, and was reared upon a Kansas farm. He received a liberal education in the grammar and high schools, and in 1871 entered the state normal at Emporia. . Two years later he was graduated in that institution, after which he devoted several years to educational work, being principal of a school for two years. Owing to somewhat impaired health, he then com- menced traveling in the West. and, in the course of his wanderings, explored California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
Returning to Kansas, in 1877, Mr. Hinde com- menced clerking for the firm of P. S. Willetts & Son, hardware and implement merchants. He also went on the road as salesman for them, and at length, in 1888, purchased the entire business. The following year, however. the younger Mr. Willetts was admitted to the firm, which became Willetts & Hinde, and so remained for two years. Then our subject sold out and conducted a rival establishment in the same city until Sep- tember 16, 1893, when he made the race to Perry. Here he put up a tent in the public square and embarked in the hardware business, and, as soon as a demand for farm implements began to be made, he commenced supplying the trade. In November, 1893. he built a frame struct- ure, 18x40 feet, on the public square, and later re- moved it to the west side. A year afterward he moved the building to the south side of the square, and in 1898 erected here the handsome Hinde block, considered the best one in the city. It is constructed of stone, and is 25x110 fect in dimensions and two stories high. In addition to this he has a warehouse, 25x150 fect, and car- ries a fine line of light and heavy hardware and farm implements and machinery. He has estab- lished branch houses at Glenco, Payne county, and at Billings and Morrison, Nobic county. Ile represents the Deering and Standard mow- ers and binders; the Advance threshing ma- chines and engines; the Canton, Rock Island
and J. I. Case plows and implements; the Mitch- ell and Fish wagons, and the Columbia and Timkin carriages. In his Perry store he em- ploys eight clerks, and one man he keeps on the road continually, selling goods. Probably no other merchant in his line in Oklahoma has sold more mowers and binders within the past few years than he, his record for 1898 being one hun- dred and fifteen; in 1899, one hundred and thirty- nine, and in 1900, one hundred and twenty-two machines.
Mr. Hinde is identified with the Kansas City' Retail Hardware and Implement and Vehicle Dealers' Association. If for no other reason than for the prosperity which is blessing this nation financially, he would be a stanch Repub- lican, as he is anyway, and on many occasions he has been a delegate to territorial conventions of his party. Fraternally he is a Knight of Py- thias, belongs to the Order of Select Knights, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and to the Red Men.
In the town of La Cygne, Kans., Mr. Hinde married one of Virginia's accomplished daugh- ters, Miss Belle Dillard. They have two chil- dren, Jessie and Panmie, well educated young ladies, possessing many charms and attainments. The family have a lovely home, the largest and handsomest residence in the city, built by Mr. Hinde, and furnished in the best of taste. The wife is a great worker in the Methodist Episco- pal Church of this place, to which she belongs.
JOB B. DOBSON. Few of the Oklahoma pioneers have experienced the various changes, vicissitudes and discouragements that have fallen to the lot of Job B. Dobson, who is now county clerk of Logan county. That he has achieved success in his chosen line of work is the strongest possible evidence of his untiring perseverance, grit and enterprise. His parents were industrious people from other shores, the father, George Dobson, being a na- tive of Providence, N. B., and the mother, Eliza- beth Dobson, a native of Nova Scotia. The ancestry of the Dobson family, however, is Eng- lish. The parents were married in Nova Scotia and two of their children were born there. In 1842 they left their northern home for the United States, and upon arriving here located first on . Rock river, near Rockford. Ill., where they were among the early settlers of that section, and it was here that Job was born October 12, 1855.
When the Civil war broke out, there began a series of interesting events for Mr. Dobson. Ile enlisted in Company G, Thirty-seventh Illi- nois Volunteer Infantry, under General Black, and after a short service was wounded at the battle of Pea Ridge, captured, and finally dis-
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charged on account of disability. His illness proving of short duration, he again enlisted, this time in the Twelfth Illinois Cavalry, from which he was transferred to the invalid corps, sent to Washington and placed on guard duty. He witnessed the pandemonium caused by the as- sassination of Lincoln, and later participated in the grand review at the end of the war. Before leaving Washington he bought up government lands in Osage county, Kans., of which, however, he did not take possession until, in 1868, he started west with his family in a wagon. The journey overland occupied five weeks and five days, and the new settlers remained on their land until the Indians were removed to the Indian Territory. The following year Mr. Dobson was offered a good price for his land by a town-site syndicate, who proceeded to lay out the town of Arvonia. He immediately bought more land in the vicinity, sold out in 1870, and later settled in Butler county, Kans. After a time he pre- empted a quarter-section of land, to which he soon added another. He died July 25, 1895; his wife passed away in February, 1900.
As a boy, Job B. Dobson had very few educa- tional advantages, a fact due to the ever-present necessity of earning his living when he was very young, and also to the few schools then in exist- ence in the localities where he lived. In Kan- sas he learned to read, and later improved his spare moments while herding cattle in learning the multiplication table. In all, he had but one term of schooling. When seventeen years of age he began driving cattle to Texas, but after continuing this arduous work for four years he decided that the little pay connected with it was no object, and in 1877 returned to Butler county and pre-empted a claim, which he sold, after improving it. He later became the owner of four hundred and fourteen acres of land, but, through a series of misfortunes, lost it all. When he originally settled on his present land, April, 1889, he lived in his wagon for some time, until he could build a log house, covered with sod. Subsequently he built a commodious house. His farm is situated on section 14, township 17, range I west, Logan county.
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